ADMIN: turning down our servers

[Doug Hunley]

It would not disappear completely. The list would simply live on as a
Google Group (which functions as both an online forum and an email
list). It's just the infrastructure (and its monthly bill) that is
going away.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:07, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All:
>> It has become apparent that the Linux SxS, while still a great
>> community, isn't really as thriving as it once was. Our NNTP server
>
>>
>> I'm targeting Nov 1 as the day of infamy
>
> I'm sorry to see this list go. It is quite different from every other
> I know. Maybe not very high traffic, but so what? Some threads were
> ostensibly off topic, but that was not a sign of the community
> inability to address technical issues, but rather the contrary. There
> was something aristocratic about it that should be preserved, and will
> probably be missed. Compare with thriving lists where sight-impaired
> people are lead by vision-challenged persons at the sound of the sudo
> mantra...
>
> Ah well...
>
> The best, for everyone.
>
> Jorge Almeida
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